Howdy, Howdy!!

Good Morning Everyone! I hope that today is a great day for you.... as for me, well the jury is still out. I've got an interview today...

I'm not sure that I want to go to work. Well, I kind of do ~ but I don't. I mean it would be nice to help out with things around here, and I'd have more money to spend on my crafts :) but I don't think I'm ready to enter the workforce just yet. Or maybe they are not ready for me???

I had to share with you a couple of things that my daughter has been up to. She shocked me the other day when she asked me if she could alter this box I had. I said sure! And made a little spot for her. I wanted to show her how to cover it and I took my scor-pal out and started what I thought would be the lines to cover it and it wasn't. She said "that paper's ruined" and I said "no it isn't - just watch" and I used each of the lines on the scor-pal and scored the paper in both directions.

Thanks to wonderful Mel over at Mel Stampz I used a crayon to "ink" the paper up. I think that I am going to keep a box of crayons on my desk now - you've got to check out her blog for this technique, she's awesome!!!

Once Danielle had seen it she shrugged her shoulders - this is teen talk for ok - and she used it!! Score one for Mom!!!

Then she decorated the box and used the Marvy punches, primas, ribbon & crystal brads. I told her it still needed something and she made the bow for the top using the directions on SCS.

But I was tickled at the card she made. She needed to make some birthday cards for friends and I walked in the craft room the other morning and said "wha' cha' doin?" and she said making a card - like I didn't figure that out!! She SO takes after me, and I'm not sure that is a good thing....

But she had "stolen" my new copy of Paper Crafts and she saw a picture in there and decided to make the card. Well it is almost identical! She can do that. Look at a picture and voila! instant card. She's very quick too. A must help I think when I've got some production issues - ahhhh, child labor. Very good to have when they want something ;-) When she was done she jokingly asked me if I would put a picture on my blog of what she did and I said yes! She gave me a double take and said "you will?" I said of course! I did tell her that I talk about her sometimes and she said "I know". I didn't think that she read my blog - I better be careful about what I write now....

This card I wanted to show you I made a while back when SCS had it as a Wednesday tutorial. It is a double pocket card. They are SO super easy to do.

I took a piece of my au Chocolat paper (that I've been saving - for what I don't know) and the SU! set One of a Kind to make it. I also used Totally Tabs, my Mega Marvy punch, my SU! Scallop punch, crystal brads and primas. I thought that it turned out kind of nice.

Well, I'm off for now. Got to get ready - wish me luck, I think.....

Hugs for a wonderful day,

Joani

More Time Well Spent

Yuppers, I think that this is probably my most favorite set of all time. Ok, well ~ maybe not, but I sure do love it. Each time that I need to make a card I seem to be reaching for this set. It's fun ~ and can be a bit colorful which is a nice addition to the rather gloomy weather that we've been seeing!

My DD asked me to make a card for her friends birthday that she went to last weekend. She told me that she is really not too girly so I thought that I'd have to keep this card in my stash and start over. When my DD came home from school and another of her friends was tagging along they both noticed the card at the same time and in unison they said "She's going to like that". Of course I was happy, but then I was sad too because I wanted to keep it. Oh well, another reason to make another.

As far as the card goes, I used Pixie Pink for the card base. I had some more of that yummy DP I purchased for Gabby's DD's card so I had to use that too. It's from Creative Imaginations and it's just a really fun print. I placed a layer on the card and turned it over and used it again, but this time I used Pink Passion to ink the edges first and attached a length of ribbon to that layer. I stamped the flowers and butterfly, colored them with pencils and cut them out. I used pop dot's on some to give it a little depth. The saying I stamped from For a Friend, inked the edges as well with Pink Passion and placed it on the card using pop dots as well. The photo corner I made from a piece of scrap and placed in the upper right corner. Once everything was in it's place I added a touch of stickles here and there for a little punch of color.

Well, yes. I've been on a card making mission it seems like since last October. I've been wanting to get back to my scrapbook but it seems that there has been non stop holiday's since. So, finally a light at the end of the tunnel! I'm done with cards thru Easter. Thank goodness the next holiday I make cards for is in July so I just might finish my album by then!!

This page actually needs something else, but I just cant put my finger on it. So I stuck it in the album and I'm sure that it will come to me one day ~ when I'm in the middle of something I'm sure. I get sidetracked so easy!

This page has pic's from when I was a little girl. My Dad in the yard taking care of his plants. I will tell you that man had the greenest thumb of anyone I knew. Our yard was actually photographed and put in Better Homes & Gardens. And yes, that is me. My DH and I have known each other for as long as I can remember. When he saw this he said "there is the tattle tale". That's because when I was little, well, I used to be a tattle tale. I was riding that same little trike and I caught him and his cousin smoking and I said "oooh, I'm gonna tell" and turned my trike around and peddled off. And to this day he won't let me live it down. So every time he says that I say "I'm gonna tell!" :)

The BG paper is from SU! It was from the Petals and Paisley collection. I hoard paper because it's pretty and never want to cut into it! I'm sure none of you know what I'm talking about ;-)

I added another layer to it, then another from the same collection. I stitched around it with my sewing machine. I stamped random flowers from the Autumn Leaves clear stamps (I found at Walmart really cheap!!) and then some from One of a Kind and I cut those out. I took a piece of YoYo Yellow and added the journaling to it and made a pocket so it will slide behind one of the photos. The photo corners were made from pieces of scrap also. A little chalk and stickles and I was thru. Like I said, it still needs something. What do you think?

More to come tomorrow! Til then ~ happy stamping!!